Things to Do on Vacation

Stormwatching.


A front porch is a wonderful place to be to have kittens play in your lap and watch a storm move in. It's soothing. At about 3:40 on it you'll see a deer run over the hill and then the rain really starts pouring.



You'll notice everything go a little sideways when the rain also started going sideways and I started getting soaked. I didn't film the OMGstorm!explosion, but I did get a few seconds of the aftermath once we were all safe inside.

Hello, Moon

I don't have a camera made for night pictures, but the last full moon was so screaming bright, I had to try.
Look at that. Like a fire ball or a volcano over the mountain.



You'd think it was the sun rising instead of the moon. (That glow at the bottom was a reflection off a puddle.)



Even through the trees, it's like a headlight.



And then there's this:



It always unnerves me when one picture is weird out of a set that I didn't do anything different with. We're gonna blame that on my NOT-night vision camera and hope there's no such thing as moon snakes.

timing is everything

I was sure it had to be 10 or 11 at night. It was only 6:30. I only got like three hours of sleep on the place from Seattle to Washington, what with the nosebleeds and roaring engines and packed in like sardines in coach.

I'm all groggy, but I'm home! I snuck in after the first blizzard and before the second one hit. We have decorated the tree, activated the singing Christmas duck (it sings Duck the Halls) and made sandwiches. There is talk of digging out the hot tub to soak in it while the snow falls. Perhaps not tonight.